Obscure Computers: G-15 Technical Memos
This set of documents orginally was with G-15D serial number 186 in
Houston, Texas.
As the Bendix Computer Division organization grew, they changed the
way they sent memos to the Customer Engineers. Whereas the early
ones may just have been technical info from geek to geek, later what
is now known as Human Resources policies were intermixed. Those, I
tossed 20 years ago. However, I do remember that the sequence numbers
were how the CE we must have gotten these from, had organized them,
and that they were sequential between both of the following flavors.
Technical Memos
- TM #105-18,
7 August 1959, Typewriter Tab Stop Setting
Customer Engineering Policies & Procedures memos
- #150,
8/1/60, "Tech Tips -- G-15 Computer"
- #151,
5/15/60, "Tech Tips -- Numeric Typewriter"
- #152,
5/15/60, "Tech Tips -- Test Routines"
- #153,
5/15/60, "Tech Tips -- Photo-Reader Trouble Shooting Aid"
- #155,
5/15/60, "Tech Tips -- Clock Chassis"
- #156,
6/7/60, "Tech Tips -- 'Divide' Trouble-Shooting Aid"
- #157,
7/29/60, "Tech Tips -- Overflow Flip-Flop"
- #158,
7/7/60, "Tech Tips -- Obtaining a Dual And Triple Trace on the
Tektronix 310" (in case you wish to use obsolete test equipment to
debug your obsolete computer?)
- #159,
7/14/60, "Tech Tips -- Command Register Trouble-Shooting Techniques"
- #161,
10/24/60, "Tech Tips -- Clock Chassis Waveforms"
- #164,
3/14/61, "Tech Tips -- Alphanumeric In/Out System"
- #165,
8/11/61, "Tech Tips -- G-15 Head Adjustments"
- #166,
10/6/61, "Tech -- Blanket Replacement of CF Tubes"
- #169,
11/3/61, "Pin-Point" (a program that augments Test Routine #1)
- #171,
12/15/61, "Alteration to the Test Routine 1 Loader"
- #174,
2/28/62, "Tech Tip -- Clock Pulse"
- #175,
3/8/62, "Tech Tip -- G-15 Format Problems"
- #176,
3/20/62, "Tech Tip -- Parallel Operation of Remote Neon Panel"
Scanned by Mark Linimon, linimon@lonesome.com, 1/11/2000.